Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
having escaped, especially from confinement;
- Example: "a convict still at large"- Example: "searching for two escaped prisoners"- Example: "dogs loose on the streets"- Example: "criminals on the loose in the neighborhood"[syn: at large(p), escaped, loose, on the loose(p)]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
on the loose
adj 1: having escaped, especially from confinement; "a convict
still at large"; "searching for two escaped prisoners";
"dogs loose on the streets"; "criminals on the loose in
the neighborhood" [syn: at large(p), escaped,
loose, on the loose(p)]